Quotes About Struggle

Let's show Dr. God what hell feels like.

A small, weak part that just wanted to be a little girl again, with a family that wasn't sick and broken. But that sure wasn't going to happen, was it?

life is supposed to have ups and downs. But for me, it's been more like ups and downs... and downs... and downs.

Attempting to drive a car before you find and release the parking brake is like trying to drag a Saint Bernard into a bathtub. But

No wonder i hadn't written anything decent in ages- I couldn't even figure out how to tell a boy that i loved him. That whenever i looked into his eyes, i felt like i was drowning and being saved, all at the same time. That if i had to choose between dying tomorrow or spending the rest of my life without him, i would seriously consider picking imminent death

We Irish don't always succeed, but we're pretty decent at grinding it out.

We Stink was going to sink like the Titanic.

I'M RAFe KHATCHADORiAN, TRAGiC HeRO I

There was freedom in the pain. It meant he was still alive, still feeling, and he felt invincible. Whatever they did to him, however hard they fought, in the end, he would win.

If there's a God, he knows I'm doing the best I can.

But being mentally ill wasn't like drowning, even if it sometimes felt like it. Because the thing about drowning is that someone else can save you, whether you want them to or not. And the thing about struggling with mental illness is that you have to be part of saving yourself.

waiting in hospitals is as close as we get to being in hell before our time

Be kind, because everyone you meet could be fighting a hard battle you know nothing about.

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An active imagination is a wonderful thing. But it can also be a burden, if you focus too much on the dark side of the street.

I've always felt like we were the civilized ones, fighting against the ones enjoying blowing up kindergartens, taking down civilian airliners, shooting up shopping malls.

ORANGE LAKE, NEW YORK SIXTY MILES NORTH OF NEW YORK CITY STARTING TO GASP AS she climbed the increasingly steep slope of the tangled hiking trail, Mary Catherine was about to take a breather when the tree line opened. Glancing out over the open ridge, she immediately halted in her tracks, as what was left of her breath was suddenly taken.

mother being taken from her deathbed, and

It was as if a boa constrictor had wrapped itself around my torso and was squeezing me into the shape of a meal.

Dave Eggers's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter, he

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Attack of the Kitchen Appliances!

Who was she kidding? she thought as she hauled Eddie up and sent him scurrying ahead of her along the forest path. She

wounds, probably for nothing," she says, "you're also going to take a wrecking ball to a solve that just made you cop of the year and basically guaranteed you a career on the force." Billy